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Rick can not sing but will talk about the sports world

New York Knicks Amar’e Stoudemire from Lake Wales learned a lesson today: if you have nothing good to say, just keep your mouth shut. Stoudemire was fined 50 large ($50 thousand) for using a slur in a direct message to a person on Twitter. The person then took a picture of what Stoudemire sent and showed the world. We know how image conscious the leagues are these days. And with Joakim Noah and Kobe Bryant getting fined for using the… Read More »

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Rick Brown has been with The Ledger since 1991. A native of Washington, D.C., Rick is a graduate of Florida A&M University. He has covered high schools, Arena Football, Spring Training Baseball, the Tampa Bay Lightning, boxing and colleges. He is currently covering the Tampa Bay Buccaneers.